Summary

The Livingston Data tables provide a summary of the artifacts recovered during Arizona State University (ASU), Office of Cultural Resource Management's (OCRM) Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) excavations at Livingston Management Group, Pinto Creek Complex. The Livingston table, "Shell Artifacts from All Contexts," presents a summary of the shell artifacts recovered from all investigated contexts (both screened and unscreened) at the site.

The table lists archaeological sites and designated archaeological contexts - strata - at each site. The strata represent major natural or cultural depositional events such as erosional fill, roof fall, floor contexts, and sterile substrate. Strata are depicted as horizontal rows of interconnected boxes on a Harris Matrix. In this table, the archaeological contexts - strata - are identified by a combination of numbering systems: the ASM site number, a colon, the feature number, and the stratum letter designation (EX: U:3:198:006A, U:3:198:006B). Within a feature, each stratum is designated by the feature number (e.g., 10, 11, 12, etc.) and a letter that designates a particular stratum (e.g., A, B, C). The letters are assigned in descending order. Mixed levels and artifacts collected out of context are designated by a "?". Artifacts from each feature (or mixed context) are tallied according to strata. Please see column metadata for further detail.

The table then provides the frequency (count) of different shell artifact types for each stratum. Note that it provides a count of shell artifacts, and not individual pieces of shell.

This data was originally published in the Roosevelt Platform Mound Monograph Series No. 3 as an appendix. See the report at the following tDAR URL:

Data Set Structure

Measurement Column

Count Column

Coded Column

Filename Column

Integration Column (has Ontology)

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Column Name

Data Type

Type

Category

Coding Sheet

Ontology

Stratum

Identifies a major natural or cultural depositional event such as erosional fill, roof fall, floor contexts, and sterile substrate (i.e., a single archaeological context in both horizontal and vertical space). Strata are depicted as horizontal rows of interconnected boxes on a Harris Matrix.
This table contains data from multiple sites with multiple features and associated strata. Thus, in this table, a stratum is identified by combining several numbering systems: an ASM site number, a colon, a feature number, and a stratum letter designation. EX: U:3:198:006A, U:3:198:006B
A stratum is a combination of an individual feature and a context in or associated with that feature. For example, Feature 10 might be a structure with an erosonial fill stratum, a roof fall stratum, a floor stratum, and a sterile substrate stratum. Within each feature, each stratum is designated by the feature number (e.g., 10, 11, 12, etc.) and a letter that designates a particular stratum (e.g., A, B, C). The levels excavated in a feature were aggregated into individual feature strata (e.g., Levels 1 - 3 = Stratum A). A feature's stratum letters are assigned in descending order. A context letter of "?" designates a mixed level or context or artifacts collected out of context.
Examples: 0? = General Cultural Fill/No Feature and Indeterminate context
10A = Feature 10 and Context A
10B = Feature 10 and Context B
10C = Feature 10 and Context C
22? = Feature 22 and Mixed and/or Undefined context
22A - Feature 22 and Context A
Each stratum (e.g., 10C) is assigned to a stratum type. The stratum data are presented in separate strata data tables.
Artifacts collected from each feature are tallied according to strata. For example, artifacts collected from Feature 10 are tallied for Stratum A, Stratum B, Stratum C, etc.

VARCHAR

Uncoded Value

Provenience and Context : Stratum

none

none

Bead/Pendant

Frequency of the shell artifact type Shell Bead in a given stratum.

BIGINT

Uncoded Value

Shell : Count

none

none

Armlet

Frequency of the shell artifact type Armlet in a given stratum.

BIGINT

Uncoded Value

Shell : Count

none

none

Bracelet

Frequency of the shell artifact type Bracelet in a given stratum.

BIGINT

Uncoded Value

Shell : Count

none

none

Debitage

Frequency of the shell artifact type Shell Debitage in a given stratum.

BIGINT

Uncoded Value

Shell : Count

none

none

Geometric

Frequency of the shell artifact type Geometric in a given stratum.

BIGINT

Uncoded Value

Shell : Count

none

none

Needle

Frequency of the shell artifact type Shell Needle in a given stratum.

BIGINT

Uncoded Value

Shell : Count

none

none

Needle/Pendant

Frequency of the shell artifact type Needle/Pendant in a given stratum.

BIGINT

Uncoded Value

Shell : Count

none

none

Pendant

Frequency of the shell artifact type Pendant in a given stratum.

BIGINT

Uncoded Value

Shell : Count

none

none

Perforated Disk

Frequency of a perforated disk in a given stratum.

BIGINT

Uncoded Value

Shell : Count

none

none

Raw Material

Frequency of raw (unmodified) shell in a given stratum.

BIGINT

Uncoded Value

Shell : Count

none

none

Ring

Frequency of the shell artifact type Ring in a given stratum.

BIGINT

Uncoded Value

Shell : Count

none

none

Ring/Pendant

Frequency of the shell artifact type Ring/Pendant in a given stratum.

BIGINT

Uncoded Value

Shell : Count

none

none

Bead

Frequency of the shell artifact type Shell Bead in a given stratum.

BIGINT

Uncoded Value

Shell : Count

none

none

Trumpet

Frequency of the shell artifact type Trumpet in a given stratum.

BIGINT

Uncoded Value

Shell : Count

none

none

Indeterminate

Frequency of the shell artifact type Indeterminate in a given stratum.

BIGINT

Uncoded Value

Shell : Count

none

none

Tinkler

Frequency of the shell artifact type Tinkler in a given stratum.

BIGINT

Uncoded Value

Shell : Count

none

none

GRAND TOTAL

The total number of shell artifacts (across all different shell artifact types) in a given stratum.